James Bouchard

Toad Hall

Toad Hall
  • Genre: Ambient
  • Time: 08:40
  • Released: 8/17/2008
  • Label:
  • Album: the Unknown
  • Credits: James Bouchard copyright 2008
  • Artist: James Bouchard
  • Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA: Massachusetts (MA)
  • Sounds Like: Acoustic

Song Information:

The title comes from reading "The Willows in Winter" to my son Maurice, which is the sequel to "The Wind in The Willows" and thinking of Toad and the sort of idyllic natural landscape. and messing around in Logic, creating a "Drag and Drop Sample Kit" in Ultrabeat, some of which sounds reminded me of croaking. Lots of ambience in here. Most of the samples come from soundsnap.com, but they are really from all sorts of places, and I don't remember where. Then I added more Logic instruments of all sorts. There's a Junosphere preset that reminds me of a Juno I used to play a lot back in the '80s. I had a studio that a roommate had used for some practice and his musical mate left the Juno there and I did a lot of recording with it on my little Fostex. In a drugged up delirium when I was laid up due to back pain, I scored a nature movie using that and other tape samples. Just for personal interest but I remember there were frogs in it at some point. I wonder where that tape went?

Anyway, back to the subject at hand, I was thinking of adding some acoustic guitar to this to make it more The Books-like, and I may yet do that, but this is at a good point. Good enough to bounce it down and call it mix#1. Maybe it's too long? Your input is appreciated!

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